The children of Pochpani village, around 80 km from Jharkhand's industrial town Jamshedpur, carry sets of bows and arrows to defend themselves in case they encounter Maoists on their way to school. The armed students move in batches, and if push comes to shove, are ready to fight Maoists, they say.

The police in Noida arrested four criminals, on the wanted list, after an encounter in sector 15, on Sunday night. The police were looking for them in connection with at least 15 cases including forgery, kidnapping, murder and extortion.

A man and his woman friend have been arrested for allegedly ransacking a police station and assaulting a head constable, in an intoxicated state, after being taken there in connection with an accident, police said Sunday.

Five daily wage employees of a forest department guest house in Bihar's Nalanda district were allegedly assaulted by cops inside a police station, following which its station house officer (SHO) was suspended on Sunday, officials said.